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March 31, 2008

Monday Afternoon With Jere

Red Sox blogger Jere interviewed me this afternoon for his YouCastr show. You can listen to all the fun -- 77 minutes!!! -- here.

Topics include: the genesis and evolution of JoS, who's who in the game thread community, discovering the Red Sox at age 11 in a Winooski, VT shoestore, my complete lack of concern for Don Zimmer's well-being, the truth behind Dan Duquette's "twilight" comment, my softball-playing career with Larry David, an amazing example of how obsessed Yankee fans are with the Red Sox (and Red Sox blogs), and why I moved to Canada (and am typing this from an igloo).

That's what I was thinking when it started up, but it seemed to go well. Very diplomatic... As for mine (feels strange to be #1 on the list - heh) - I don't know how to word this exactly, but I'm just glad I got a unique response instead of a "I dunno" type of thing....

And you just may be right about them cell phones. I don't have a land line, so I have an excuse for mine.

re: McCain. I keep wanting to say, "Laura knows it's all in good fun."

But then I just accept the fact that she's gonna kill me....

Maybe that'll be my interview trademark: An hour of lulling the person into a false sense of security and then BAM, minefield! Seriously, though, I just thought it'd be kind of a fun thing. No mines or hiding of mines were intentional.

Really enjoying the interview. Fun to hear voices of people I've read extensively. I've been loving Joy of Sox for about four years. I'm a Boston boy relocated to Vancouver, BC 14 years ago. Your blog is an integral part of how closely I follow the Sox. I got a kick out of you guys discussing people of a different political viewpoint enjoying your blog. As you commented about how you view the conservative New York Mets blogger's blog, I love your baseball stuff so much that I'm barely bugged at all by the different politics!

Wow, can't wait to listen to this!Had a long night last night, never got to the computer to even check e-mail, so I'll have to back track one evening and listen to it.Off day Thursday, right? Maybe then.Seriously, these are the 2 sites I spend more time at than I do my own. It'll be fun to hear them talk to each other, not that they don't do it quite a bit already :)

Great interview, Allan and Jere. I have to listen more to the whole thing (hard to find 77 minutes of time these days), but I heard good chunks of it and will go back for more.

I did skip ahead to figure out what was the "gem at the end" (no, I don't usually read the ending of books first, but I was curious). Thanks for your comment---it may be the first time I have been called "cool" in my life! And yeah, what WAS my life like before I discovered blogs?

I must have missed the McCain comment, however, so I will have to find time to go back and listen to the whole thing.

Thought I'd post this here b/c of the traffic. Anyone who signed up for the MLB-TV monthly package for spring training games and thought they'd get a renewal/opt-out option emailed to them at the end of the month (as I was specifically told by an MLB.com person), think again. My Mastercard was charged for April, no email option was sent. After an unusually short (for them, but still 15 minutes) telephone call, Bernadette assures me that they've reversed the charge. MLB.com just rolls along screwing folks left and right. They get me anyway for MLB-audio and indirectly for my cable MLB-EI subscription, is that not enough?

That's why I stopped dealing with MLB.com. Gameday audio is really cheap and awesome ($15, and I could seriously listen to any baseball game all day as 'background music') - but in my dealings with MLB.com products in the past, they are money-grubbing scumbags with terrible customer service, so I refuse to buy anything from them.